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Veterans Business Outreach Center sponsoring first symposium/resource fair

Helping veteransThe Veterans Business Outreach Center at The University of Texas at Arlington is sponsoring its first Veterans Business Symposium and Resource Fair  7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, in the College of Business Building, 701 S. West St. The symposium and fair features a free keynote lunch with veteran entrepreneurs and HGTV’s Ashley and Andy Williams, new stars of “Flip of Flop Fort Worth.” “We want to show other veterans and their families that it’s possible to transition, add

UTA mechanical engineer publishes findings that show brain damage that could occur from blast-induced cavitation

Neural knowledgeAshfaq Adnan, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, and his postdoctoral associate Yuan Ting Wu recently published research findings in Nature’s Scientific Reports  revealing that if battlefield blasts may cause cavitation in the brain’s perineuronal nets, which, in turn, may collapse and cause neuronal damage. Cavitation is the development of bubbles, much like those that develop around a ship’s spinning propellers. Existing scans and medical technology cannot

Small Business Administration grant establishes UTA center to help veterans with entrepreneurial skills

Veterans aidThe University of Texas at Arlington College of Business has been awarded a two-year, $500,000 Small Business Administration grant to establish a Veterans Business Outreach Center that will offer educational, training and consulting services to veterans who are starting a business or franchise. The UTA Veterans Business Outreach Center is the second such center established in Texas, the center in the largest metropolitan area to date and the 19thcenter nationwide. Among the existing centers is one at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg. The UTA grant will

Portable brain-mapping device allows UT Arlington researchers to ‘see’ where memory fails student veterans

Students improve after treatmentUT Arlington researchers have successfully used a portable brain-mapping device to show limited prefrontal cortex activity among student veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder when they were asked to recall information from simple memorization tasks. The study by bioengineering professor Hanli Liu and Alexa Smith-Osborne, an associate professor of social work, and two other collaborators was published in the May 2014 edition of NeuroImage: Clinical . The team used functional near

Military Times includes UT Arlington in Best for Vets business schools list

Selection focuses on culture and curriculum that caters to veteransThe University of Texas at Arlington is one of the best business schools in the United States for military veterans, according to rankings released Monday by Military Times. UT Arlington has about 3,000 veterans or veterans’ family members attending classes here. Of those, about 2,200 are veterans. UT Arlington placed No. 33 on the list of 64 institutions. Military Times focused on culture and curriculum that caters to military veterans when conducting and scoring the second annual Best for Vets: Business Schools

National award recognizes nursing professor’s work with veterans

The associate director of UT Arlington’s Center for Nursing Research has been honored nationally for her work on a study of ways to support injured veterans in the workforce. Daisha Cipher was part of a research team that recently received the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine’s Elizabeth and Sidney Licht Award for Excellence  in Scientific Writing in Rehabilitation Medicine. The paper recognized was titled, “Effectiveness of Supported Employment for Veterans With Spinal Cord Injuries: Results From a Randomized Multisite Study.”

UT Arlington wins federal funding to help veterans become nurses

The College of Nursing will use the grant to expand and adapt its popular online BSN program to educate pre-licensure nurses with military backgrounds that included medical training.Federal officials who aim to help veterans translate their military service into nursing careers have awarded a grant of almost $300,000 to the UT Arlington College of Nursing for to increase enrollment and graduation rates for veterans. Kelly Bowman, a 2003 graduate of the UT Arlington College of Nursing who served nine years active duty in the Navy, was deployed in Iraq and other areas of the Middle East.

UT Arlington kicks off Smart Care to test technologies, improve health care

The University of Texas at Arlington's College of Nursing  and College of Engineering  have received $634,500 in federal funds to kick off Smart Care – a discovery and demonstration center for technologies to help senior citizens, people with disabilities and injured veterans live healthier and longer in their own homes. Researchers will work with business and industry partners to integrate advanced sensors, wireless communication and other technologies into a simulated home environment. Smart Care will evaluate the usefulness

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